Future Prospects of Flexible, Large-Area Sensors and Actuators with Organic Transistor ICs

Author

Someya, Takao ; Sakurai, Takayasu ; Sekitani, Tsuyoshi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Eng., Tokyo Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

24-26 April 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report recent progress and future prospects of organic field-effect transistors and their applications to flexible, large-area sensors and actuators. In particular, we describe stretchable electronic artificial skins (e-skins) for robots, pocket image scanners suitable for mobile applications, and Braille sheet display with plastic actuator arrays. We also present recent progress of reliability and stability issues; encapsulation techniques to suppress chemical degradation and annealing techniques to reduce the effect of DC bias stress

Keywords

electric actuators; image sensors; monolithic integrated circuits; organic semiconductors; reliability; Braille sheet display; DC bias stress; chemical annealing; chemical degradation; e-skins; encapsulation techniques; large area actuators; large area sensors; mobile applications; organic transistor integrated circuits; plastic actuator arrays; pocket image scanners; stretchable electronic artificial skins; Actuators; Chemical sensors; Displays; Encapsulation; Mobile robots; OFETs; Plastics; Robot sensing systems; Skin; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Technology, Systems, and Applications, 2006 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

ISSN

1524-766X

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0181-4

Electronic_ISBN

1524-766X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTSA.2006.251071

Filename

4016607